Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, March
ll, 1936. He married Maureen McCarthy and has nine children - Ann
Forrest, Eugene, John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary Clare, Paul
David, Matthew, Christopher James, and Margaret Jane. He received his
A.B. from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg,
Switzerland, and his LL.B from Harvard Law School, and was a Sheldon
Fellow of Harvard University from 1960-1961. He was in private practice
in Cleveland, Ohio from 1961-1967, a Professor of Law at the University
of Virginia from 1967-1971, and a Professor of Law at the University of
Chicago from 1977-1982, and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown
University and Stanford University. He was chairman of the American Bar
Association's Section of Administrative Law, 1981-1982, and its Conference
of Section Chairmen, 1982-1983. He served the federal government as
General Counsel of the Office of Telecommunications Policy from
1971-1972, Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States
from 1972-1974, and Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal
Counsel from 1974-1977. He was appointed Judge of the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1982. President Reagan
nominated him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and he took
his seat September 26, 1986.